We love all the funky keystrokes to control our applications. They save a lot of mouse kilometers and let us control our Mac applications in a more geeky way.

But to be honest – who can remember all the secret key strokes for all the applications? Clearly not me. I often considered to create me a cheat sheet with all my favorite applications shortcuts.

But today I found a smarter solution on a screenshot from Sascha Assbach – KeyCue. This is a little invisible application which displays all the keyboard shortcuts of the current application in a nice overlay. You simply have to press ⌘-Key a few seconds and the overlay appears.

Yesterday I noticed a new clean and lean GTD application called “The Hitlist” from Potion Factory. It’s got a simply and clean interface but still seems to have all the essential functionalities one would expect from a powerfull GTD application.

I did just a short test and some screenshots to get a vast overview and like to share it.

The Main screen features the Inbox and a sidebar with access to all important areas:

One can open several tabs in the main view although you can access the areas via the sidebar. But when you hide the sidebar you’ll still able to access the other lists via the tabs.

Very important for me is the feature to collect tasks in projects and nest projects into projects. This is one of the major features I miss in Things from Cultured Code.

The bottom bar can show either a filter (on tags) or dynamic hints.

Tags and context can be entered by prepending them with a special character (@ for contexts, / for tags). This is very usefull as you don’t have to switch to another input field to enter tags and contexts.

So all over it seems a very lean but still powerfull application. I’ll stay with OmniFocus for the moment but “The Hitlist” is definitly worth a closer look.